News - ICDAR2017 Robust Reading Challenge on COCO-Text

02/20/2024

Rumsey (General) Data Update

The training and validation data images for the Rumsey (General) data has been updated to fix a color channel order error that arose during the data export process. Please make sure to download the latest version (v1.1), in which the error has been corrected.

Note that the IGN (French) and Sample data were not affected by this error.

Challenge News

09/28/2017
COCO-Text competition results have been published.
03/30/2017
COCO-Text: Training Datasets Available

Important Dates

March, 13: COCO-Text available. (train/val/test).

March, 19: Cropped words dataset available. (train/val).

March, 23: Annotations updated (v1.4).

March, 30: Cropped words dataset updated (v1.4).

May, 23: Submissions opening.

June, 30: Submission of results deadline.

September, 28: Results publication.

November, 10-15: Results presentation.